Ok, got the Nose on the ground and did a short 10 mile test drive. Looks like it was a plugged brake line. The Barth stops straight and even a bit better than before. The pedal is ok but if I pump it a couple of times I can get a wee bit more pedal, so I think I'll bleed it again. Thanks again for the information.

It a big oval plate that is secured with machin screws. The plate in your picture looks like mine. If you scrape around the edges you find 4 screws. There is a rubber gasket between the plate and the floor.The Master Cylinder lines up with the frame rail.

Wow that is nice my glass nose as you can see has nothing like that! I wonder what is the difference and why, mine is an 81 chassis...Your dog house sides are lower than mine and mine is closer to the gas pedal!

The wider dog house in my unit would take up a quarter of the plate in your picture. I will scrape that area when I bleed the brakes again just to make sure.

I am looking at your picture and I can see the outline of the missing panel just where I showed you. Look closely at the right side of th picture and there it is! As for brakes, you do not need disc brakes in the rear on a truck. The rear brakes contribute 10% of the total stopping forces. They get their greatest wear when backing up. We have not had any issues with the drums on our 22 ft. Glasnose.

Originally posted by Tom and Julie:I am looking at your picture and I can see the outline of the missing panel just where I showed you. Look closely at the right side of the picture and there it is! As for brakes, you do not need disc brakes in the rear on a truck. The rear brakes contribute 10% of the total stopping forces. They get their greatest wear when backing up. We have not had any issues with the drums on our 22 ft. Glasnose.

Originally posted by Tom and Julie:I am looking at your picture and I can see the outline of the missing panel just where I showed you. Look closely at the right side of th picture and there it is! As for brakes, you do not need disc brakes in the rear on a truck. The rear brakes contribute 10% of the total stopping forces. They get their greatest wear when backing up. We have not had any issues with the drums on our 22 ft. Glasnose.

Tom you are having a fig newton, I stripped the area down to the almost bare metal, some paint or something left there, check these two pictures,,,no access plate!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Danny Z:I find it curious that our Euros, only 38 apart down the assembly line, are so different. You don't have an access panel for the MC, and now I find out you have drums on the rear.

From what they tell me at the parts stores in that era, four versions of the P30 were built, step van, motor home chassis, with and without drum brakes, and stripped van. So who can tell what Chevy did to what! I checked back a little further than what the pictures show to where Barth had chalked in some sheet aluminum and the started the coach structure.

Another thing, my radiator is mounted for vertical flow and all the others seem to be mounted for cross flow. Steve was surprised to see that, seems like they used the same radiator though.

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